1. Exactly, that why I am surprised that a turret FC base size is twice of a standard 4x FC size (either that or its assumed that CIWS would need an FC per gun, which doesn't make sense to me)3. Not if its a back up. For example if I put it on reconnaissance cruiser, obviously it should make a difference if its making full speed maneuvers or parked as support for JP defense.

4. Any idea what is the full hit chance formula? (i.e. how missile speed, crew grade and electronic warfare comes to play)

Interestingly, turrets with a designed tracking speed of 0 end up behaving like unturreted weapons.Theoretically useful if you don't need additional tracking speed but you do want to armour your weapons.

Oh, does it? That's a relief. I was worried about trying to find a way to defend myself against mesons, and I was worried that I couldn't internally armor turrets without having to use a bunch of gear just to match the speed of my ship.

1. Exactly, that why I am surprised that a turret FC base size is twice of a standard 4x FC size (either that or its assumed that CIWS would need an FC per gun, which doesn't make sense to me)3. Not if its a back up. For example if I put it on reconnaissance cruiser, obviously it should make a difference if its making full speed maneuvers or parked as support for JP defense.

4. Any idea what is the full hit chance formula? (i.e. how missile speed, crew grade and electronic warfare comes to play)

1. If true then CIWS would still be using the old base BFC base size of 1 HS rather than the current 0.5 HS base size. (Bug)

@sublight. NM, my bad. For some reasons I thought min include all that formula. (that why multi tasking doesn't work, kids don't text and drive, also your last min should have been max)

@83athom. If not for crewgrade, moral and Officer fighter bonus, for me those would be bad odds even under the best circumstances.

It's the drawback for using half-size gauss cannons. The best way to mitigate it is, aside from crew, is using several and researching higher fire rates. 2x2x4 CIWS can filter quite a bit of damage, assuming you put any armor on the ships they're used for.Either way, the CIWS is a commercial design. If you really need that 90%-100% hit ratio per shot, you can design turrets using larger gauss cannons for use on military ships.

@83athom. If not for crewgrade, moral and Officer fighter bonus, for me those would be bad odds even under the best circumstances.

Think of it this way, instead of 2x 50% lets use a 1x 100% at a fire rate of 5 per increment. The 1x would have the best chance of getting all of its shots to hit, so its almost guaranteed to hit 5 missiles at final fire. The 2x will fire 10 shots at a 50% hit chance (usually 60%+ after crew grade and tracking bonus), so the average missiles hit would be 5. However, the 2x also has the chances to hit 10 missiles in a single increment, but it also has the chance to miss all of its shots. The other benefit is that its a self contained unit, so it is immune to HPMs.

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still remember probability from Uni, so I understand hit chance. What I was saying is that*, that no matter how superior your technical capabilities are, you Base Hit chance will always be 50% (since tracking\ECM can only reduce it ** ) which means that your base chance to hit would be 75%, 87.5%, 94% (ROF 1,2,3)

Those numbers aren't encouraging, especially if you have a volley of more than one missile coming your way, in which case the chance to take them all down plummet.

*I was, assuming that formula is correct** I haven't checked if grade\moral is can range above 1, but if it does it would be weird that all my Empire expertise can't improve my autonomous system hit chance but my crew feelings can :/

well, against realistically dangerous threats, your to-hit will never be 100% anyway, because the missiles will be faster than your tracking speed.. you dont even want 100% to hit, since then you cant leverage your bonuses.